For both to be second-round picks, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux sure took their lumps at the onset of their major league careers. Maddux was taken first among the two in the 1984 Draft, going 31st-overall to the Cubs (chosen immediately after two players that never played an inning in MLB). Glavine was chosen 47th
There’s a lot to cover regarding this year’s MLB Draft, and starting with today’s post, we here at SportsTalkATL will begin a series of columns to do just that. From now until Draft Day — the 2020 MLB Draft will be from June 10-12 — we plan to publish numerous write-ups detailing this year’s event,
For many MLB players, Spring Training is a time to get “back in the swing of things” as they say — get loose, stretched out, etc. But there’s also a large pool of players that have much more on the line during these exhibition games. Sure, the games themselves are meaningless, but the next four
In year’s past, the Braves weren’t usually represented very well in fantasy baseball. Even in their winning years (before the rebuild), the stat-heavy world of fantasy just didn’t do a good job at illustrating the talent of those division-winning (though more defensive) Braves’ rosters. However, that trend appears to be changing, and the Braves’ young
No one really knew what to expect on Saturday afternoon as the Braves opened up Spring Training play at their new home in Northport, FL. The soon-to-be 34-year-old Felix Hernandez was tasked with starting the Braves’ Spring slate, and it was anyone’s guess how the veteran’s first pro outing in a non-Mariners’ uniform would go.
Baseball is finally back, and now would be a great time to not only look back at the Braves’ active offseason, but also take a gander at their spending relative to the rest of the majors. Currently, the Braves check in with a $156.7 million payroll, good for 12th in the majors but second-to-last in
All the way back to when big-league players were scouted as amateurs, there has been something specific that has separated each player from the next, oftentimes translated on paper using the term “tools”. Whether it’s something quantifiable like being able to field well or hit a fastball, or maybe an intangible like composure or makeup…
The reality of a mid-market team can, at times, come with its fair share of frustrations. Payroll flexibility is always small, margins even smaller, and talent almost always has to be developed in-house. Teams with limited budgets can’t just go out and buy the best player on the free-agent market, nor can they afford the
Today features the final installment of our series, meaning this is our last post dissecting the Braves’ portion of Bradford Doolittle’s ‘No-Moves’ MLB Power Rankings write-up he published at ESPN last week — an overview ranking each of the 30 MLB teams based solely on their original homegrown talent. For a refresher as to what this
On Monday, I rolled out Part 1 of a three-part series meant to delve into what the Braves would look like if all of the organization’s originally signed/drafted players were on the team right now (using only players currently still active). As I mentioned in the first post (covering the Braves’ lineup), this series stems
